Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-06-12
GEORGE ON O'BRIEN.
THAT UNION SQUARE INCIDENT.
American Landlords Dine and Wine 0'Brien
to Get the Irish Vote
O'BRIEN CHARGED WITH INSINCERITY
George JuStifeS the Stand of Chairman
MCmakin.

NLw YORK, June 1.-THE entire first
page Of Henry Georges paper, the Stand
dri, is taken up with Mr.. Georges opinion
Ofthe Union Square incident of Saturday
night last. 1t is headed William
OBrien. After asserting that the men
who side with John McCracken did
right in not yielding to the demands" Of
O'Brien, he says:
'No trap whatever was was set for
Mr. O'Brien. and no attempt whatever
was made to get him to take sides in
American politics. He came to America
to denOunce an Irish landlord for his con-
duct as landlord. He was received with
omen arms by American landlords and the
defenders of American landlords, who
dined hlm and wined him and
gave him public ovatiOns, with the trans
parent purpose of making themselves solid
with the Irish vote He has been fiat
tered and lionized by press that has
nothing but Misrepresentation and abuse
for those who impeach i'll America the very
same system which these papers so glibly
condemn in Ireland, and has received the
public approval OF the same Archbishop
who is exerting all his power to perSecute
unto ecclesiastical death the American
priest who incurred the unrelenting enml-
~ of the Italian Propaganda by the brave
words said in favor Of the Irish revolution
in lrelaud's darkest hour.
The following extracts are taken here
and there from Mr.. Georges article:
1T is hard to regard
MR.. O'BRIEN's OBJECTION
to Mr.. McMackin otherwise than AS 4
mere subterluge. If Mr.. McMackin had
been known because he only had presided
at lecture by Mr.. lyman there might
have been some reason in Mr.. O'Brien's
objection, though even then it is hard for
an American citizen to understand the
ahiect frame OF mind which would lead IN
Irish patriot to declare that his presence
on a New York platform with any one
whom the workingmen of New York had
selected rs their presiding officer wOuld
destroy Mr.. Parncll, wreck the Irish
movement and cast TO the winds the hopes
of the Irish people for this generation! If
Mr.. parnell is so easily destroyed and the
Irish movement of such delicate stuff as
this had it not better be kept in band
box marked Truly British and no one
suffered to approach it unless labelled
Approved by the London Times. y
But Mr..
MCNIACKIN'S TITLE To DISTINCTION
is not that he presided at Mr.. Tynan's
lecture. Mr.. McMackin is known to thou
sands and thousands who never heard of
lyman: and to thousands and thousands
who, though they may have heard lyman )
name have no clear idea Of any COnnec-
ton of his with Irish physical force move
ments, or that he had any connection ut
all But the people Of New York do
know Mr.. McMackiu. He has been St
lectcd by the men whO-prOpOSed 10 receive
Mr.. O'Hrien on Saturday night rs their
representative and presiding officer on far
more important occasions than even the
reception of an Irish member of the
British Parliament. John McMackiu hap
pened to he born in Ireland, and was in
Fenian times Fcnian. But he is not a
dvnamiter, nor an advocate of violence. As
a matter of fact he presided at the lyman
lecture simply because he was StrenuOuSy
urged to do SO by some of Mr.. o Brien's
friends as a matter of charity to man who
had been left stranded in New York with 4
family OF nine children, and in his remarks
there he took pains to emphasize his own
position and to state that he only prcsidedas
matter Of fair play. Yet Mr. O'BrIcn
wanted the workingmen of New York to
boycott NJ. McMackln for this
The utter
INSfNCERTTY OF MIR. O'ERIEN'S PLEA
that for him to 20 upon platform with the
man who had presided ut a lecture by Mr..
lyman, would destroy Mr.. P,rnell, wreck
the Irish movement and cast to the winds
the hopes OF the Irish people, is proved by
the fact that ut Boston he did 90 on the
platform with gentleman, Mr. John
Boyle O'Reilly, who recently presided at 4
lecture of this same lyman. And it
is further to he observed that be
tween the time when he refused
TO attend the labor demonstration and
the time when he took the occasion OF
the Hoffman House Banquet to attack Mr..
McMackln he accepted the invitation and
escort to the Press Club OF Patrick Ford,
the editor, and Austin T.. Ford, Captain
Edward O'Meaghcr Condor and David
Healv, of the staff of the Irish lIOHH. How
grateful this will he to the London Times
is shown ny the cable dispatch that the
T;mcS on Tuesday morning i'll continual
tion of its articles on 'Parnellsm and
Crime, published facsimile of PAGE OF
the Irish lTorH and the greater portion OF
au address by Patrick Ford.
The real truth of the matter is, evil
IDENTIFY. that Mr.. O'Bricn did not want to
identity himself or the Parliamentary par
ty with the principle of the land for the
pcople. which Mr. MCMaCkin does repre-
sent. He was willing to accept an oya-
tion from the wOrkingmen OF New York
provided il should appear to he merely
tribute to himself, to what be calls his
mission and to the picayune ''nd policy
OF the Parliamentary party; hut he was
not willing to accept any demonstration
which would displease the Saviors OF Socl-
etv who have clustered round hlm IN the
United states or would give any color to
the assumption that the Irish cause does
involve universal principle.
The Printers.
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